Tower Hamlets Cemetery

Ages ago now we visited Tower Hamlets Cemetery. It's the smallest and least-known of the 'Magnificent Seven' Victorian cemeteries that ring London, and possibly the most ruinous and overgrown. We didn't have much time to examine it exhaustively, but had a good poke round, gradually becoming more bemused by our inability to locate the Maze, which, it turns out, is long gone. The monuments in this humbler and less fashionable cemetery are generally less grandiose than those at its counterparts such as Highgate and Kensal Green, but there are still some intriguing ones, and a gigantic Gothic rocket which is very hard to photograph properly. The most moving aspect of Tower Hamlets is how it very clearly provides such an important recreation space to the people around - children were playing, couples strolling and dogs being walked on the sunny afternoon we were there.